need help on program...

This is a discussion on need help on program... within the C++ Programming forums, part of the General Programming Boards category; Ive been told to do a program which outputs the following:
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can someone please tell me if im close, and if so what this third loop needs to contain? ive been trying to do it for a while now, and no matter what i put in that third loop it always runs infinitely.
thanks~

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for some reason when i posted it altered the triangle i needed...
since it wont let me display, ill descobe it...
it consists of a block pretty much, where it has 4 spaces and 1 star for the first row, then 3 spaces and 2 stars for the second...etc,etc...pretty much the one displayed, but reversed.
thanks~